Simultaneous interior controllability of elastic strings

Publication date 15 February 2004

controllability mixed problem for elastic strings one-dimensional wave equations rational approximation

Strings (74K05) Controllability (93B05) Control/observation systems governed by partial differential equations (93C20)

The author considers the problem of simultaneous controllability of two elastic strings by means of a common action localized on the interval \(\omega\) \[ \begin{gathered} \rho^2_i u^i_{tt}- u_{xx}'+ f\chi_\omega= 0,\quad (t,x)\in \mathbb{R}\times [0,\ell_i],\\ u^i(t,0)= 0,\;u^i(t,\ell_i)= 0,\;u^i(0,x)= u^i_0(x),\;u^i_t(0,x)= u^i_1(x),\end{gathered} \] where \(i= 1,2\), \(\chi_\omega\) is the characteristic function of the interval \(\omega\) and \((u^i_0,u^i_1)\in H^1_0(0, \ell_i)\times L^2(0,\ell_i)\). For a given \(T> 0\) it should be determined for which initial states \((u^i_0, u^i_1)\) a control function \(f\) may be chosen such that \(u^i(T, x)= 0\), \(u^i_t(T,x)= 0\), \(i= 1,2\). These initial states are said to be controllable in time \(T\). The system is exactly controllable in time \(T\) if all the initial states \((u^i_0, u^i_1)\) are controllable in time \(T\). It is shown that, when the string densities are different, the system is exactly controllable in any time larger than the characteristic times of the strings. When the densities coincide, the controllability properties depend on the rational approximation properties of the ratio of the lengths. For the entire collection see [Zbl 1029.00072].

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